Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Speaker was Rev. Harry E. Fosdick, recently (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq:) jockeyed out of a Presbyterian pulpit. "Nine-tenths of the religious problem," said he, "is a senseless controversy over questions of History." Religion is like a crab, outgrowing one shell and building another. Religion consists of "the great reproducible experiences of the soul itself, with its fellows, with...
...Parish House of the First Parish Church, Cambridge, but by 12 the room had become so crowded, that it was necessary to shift the whole meeting into the main church building, where the regular Sunday service had just come to an end. Speaking from the high church pulpit, Dean Pound addressed a crowd of over 600, made up for the most part of law school students, but also containing many women and older...
Jack in the Pulpit. Robert Ames, who has given two excellent performances in The Hero and Icebound, is now the defendant on two serious charges. Item: He has become a manager. Item: He has produced a fearful play. In fact, he has produced one of the season's worst. Which, in this scrambled season, is almost a distinction...
...study at Illinois Wesleyan. In his handling of his second pastorate (at Yonkers, N. Y.), he exhibited a genius for organizing that lifted him high and brought under his hand four Manhattan churches. The Brooklyn call came in 1901, to the Central Congregational Church. He is known as a pulpit orator, widely read, hard of head, a man whose breadth of information (his specialty is the Oxford Movement) keeps abreast of his breadth of interest (his hobby is collecting antique chinaware and furniture...
This action was taken after the Presbyterian General Assembly demanded that he either become affiliated with the Presbyterian Church or relinquish his pulpit...